poppycock

English

Borrowed from Dutch pappekak, from Middle Dutch pappe (“soft food”) + kak (“dung, excrement”).

poppycock (usually uncountable, plural poppycocks)

nonsense

Afrikaans: pappekak, nonsens, onsin, snert, twak, stront
Bulgarian: глупости (bg) f pl (gluposti)
Dutch: onzin (nl), nonsens (nl)
Finnish: hölynpöly (fi)
French: baliverne (fr) f
German: Quatsch (de) m, Dünnschiss (de) m
Italian: stupidaggine (it) f
Polish: bzdury f pl, ambaje (pl) m pl (archaic), androny (pl), banialuki f pl
Russian: вздор (ru) m (vzdor), ерунда́ (ru) f (jerundá), туфта́ (ru) f (tuftá), чепуха́ (ru) f (čepuxá)
Spanish: tonteria, sin sentido
Turkish: laga luga (tr)

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